In an op-ed written by alumna Catherine Stinson for the Globe and Mail, she argues those working in AI need to take their work's social and ethical implications much more seriously.
PhD student Carolina Gomes and alumnus Daniel Zhang are building a startup with the support of the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL).
For International Women's Day, U of T News put together a short quiz about just a few of the alumnae and faculty who’ve smashed through ceilings and changed the world.
Over the past five years, more than 150 companies have been created. In total, they've generated more than $500 million in investment. Four of the top 10 mentions have a U of T computer science connection.
Kaufman, who co-founded WinterLight with fellow computer science researchers Maria Yancheva, Katie Fraser and Assistant Professor Frank Rudzicz, says the startup benefited immensely from its ongoing association with Toronto’s growing innovation community.
The University of Toronto is among the top five best global universities for fostering startups, says UBI Global, a Stockholm-based research and advisory firm that ranks top business incubators and accelerators.
Weedoo, a startup co-founded by U of T alumni, may play a key role in building a link between India and the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL).
"If you look at the history of a word, meanings of that word tend to shift or extend over time," says Yang Xu, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and University College’s cognitive science program.
Assistant Professor Ashton Anderson (UTSC) and Etan Green, an assistant professor in operations, information and decisions at Wharton, have published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Assistant Professor (status only) Frank Rudzicz's project is one of nine sharing almost $820,000 in funding this year from the Connaught Innovation Awards.
U of T News went beyond the numbers by speaking to four PhD graduates, including alumna Inmar Givoni, an autonomy engineering manager at Uber in Toronto.
January 19 to 21, nearly 400 hackers assembled at the University of Toronto's St. George campus to code in teams on personal projects or challenges set forth by the event's sponsors.
Qingnan Zhou, research engineer at Adobe Research and Assistant Professor Alec Jacobson’s dataset "Thingi10k" was selected by the CGF editorial board for Computer Graphics Forum 2018 Cover Image.
The profile, in this week’s issue, offers an intimate look into the life of the "godfather" of deep learning, a branch of AI that seeks to mimic how the human brain works.
